deepbluejh wrote:
I wouldn't touch them. Cards these days aren't that expensive anyway. Pay a few bucks more and protect your data.
+1
i think the only guys that were really into these were the ones trying to use the ML 5D3 RAW video which needs the very fastest cards (like the Lexar 1000x) . to them these seemed the cheap alternative to a pretty pricey option.
but as has been higligted in the thread i linked to they dont have the speed (the specs say they do) to do that job.
so yes for anything else there are just as fast (or faster) cards at similar prices that will actually hold your data
jprezant wrote:
this is hilarious. I'm bumping it back up. After everyone flamed komputerbay as being crap, it turns out that
it's actually flash memory that was destined to be in lexar cards, but didn't quite make the quality control
pass. So it might run slightly slower than the lexar 1000x. But for 114 bucks for a 64 gig card that supposedly
hits write speeds of 95mbps I will give it a shot. I need a fast card to shoot RAW 1080p on my 5d3's so i'll try it
and report back if anyone is still interested.
We don't know if it's flash memory that was destined to be in lexar cards for sure. Only a person in a forum wrote that. But if it's true it's even worse. Who likes to buy flash memory that have a fault and was rejected for a proper card!!
For only a bit more you can buy a Transcend 1000x card. And that card is not made of rejected & faulty flash memory.
And yes it's hilarious that they can get people to buy faulty flash memory even if they know it's faulty
maxx9photo wrote:
I've crossed this komputerbay CF cards on Amazon, what do you think on this brand? I'm talking UDMA 7 1000x write speed. Anyone can share their thought? Compare with Lexar, Sandisk, etc.
The 128GB version is slow, slow, slow. It peaks at like 72MB/s for their 1000x 150MB/s while the Hoodman Steal 1000x 64GB and Lexar 1000x 32GB can sustain 83MB/s for sure. Then again, unless doing RAW video, 72MB/s isn't that bad and the price is crazy good.
Then then again, there are disturbing reports about many units failing after 2-4 weeks, which sounds dicey to me, although a couple guys are into week 7 without failure.
Mickey wrote:
It's quite possible that being a "no name" brand it was manufactured by one of the big boys anyway and just re-labeled. It's not every Johnny-come-lately" that can set up the manufacturing facilities for that kind of work. Buy one and give it a good workout before you do critical work with it.
PS. Let us know how it goes.
It is true, but it has been said that they also use parts the big boys rejected from QC. (rumor)
jprezant wrote:
this is hilarious. I'm bumping it back up. After everyone flamed komputerbay as being crap, it turns out that
it's actually flash memory that was destined to be in lexar cards, but didn't quite make the quality control
pass. So it might run slightly slower than the lexar 1000x. But for 114 bucks for a 64 gig card that supposedly
hits write speeds of 95mbps I will give it a shot. I need a fast card to shoot RAW 1080p on my 5d3's so i'll try it
and report back if anyone is still interested.
Or maybe it stuff that didn't pass QC which means it may fail after a few weeks or a few months? Why do you think it means it will simply run a little slower but be otherwise perfect?? I'm not quite sure how memory in these works, but it needs to be hard clocked do you think they experiment with each card to clock it just as it needs to be?
